Author: Lesley Wolfgang

Federal White House requests $22.4B in COVID-19 funding, $3.9B in monkeypox funding (The Hill, 9/2/22) White House requires immediate public access to all U.S.-funded research papers by 2025 (Science, 8/26/22); see also Office of Science and Technology Policy public access memo (8/25/22) and Breakthroughs for All: Delivering Equitable Access to America’s Research (OSTP blog, 8/25/22)…

Federal Insulin Copay Cap Passes House Hurdle, But Senate Looks for a Broader Bill (KHN, April 4, 2022) U.S. Bills would make it easier to study health effects of marijuana (Science, April 12, 2022) From the ALA Public Policy & Advocacy Office: Unite Against Book Bans, a national initiative to empower readers everywhere to stand…

Federal FDA: Class I recall of Empowered Diagnostics COVID-19 Tests (U.S. Food & Drug Administration, 1/28/2022) Senate Finance leaders outline mental health legislative timeline (Roll Call, 2/8/2022)   Illinois A few bills the ILA is currently following: HB4470 – Access Electronic Literature and its Senate counterpart SB3167 HB4005 – FOIA-Response-Format of Data HB4758 – Broadband Access…

Federal News NIH head Collins to step down as leader (Roll Call, 10/5/2021) Democrats weigh health care provisions in $3.5 trillion bill (Roll Call, 9/30/2021)   Illinois News There have been lots of bills and resolutions introduced in the Illinois state legislature lately. Here is a sampling of some that might be of interest: House Resolution 469…

Federal News Biden vaccine rule sets stage for onslaught of lawsuits (The Hill, 8/3/21) Build America’s Libraries Act: Deadline approaching (ALA Advocacy Alert, 8/16/2021)   Illinois News Bills of interest: HB4092 (https://legiscan.com/IL/bill/HB4092/2021) – Amends the State Library Act.  – Referred to Rules Committee – 5/25/2021. SB2294 (https://legiscan.com/IL/bill/SB2294/2021) – Creates the Illinois Certified Community Behavioral Health…